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To: gdichaz who wrote (3489)	4/20/1998 12:13:00 PM
From: Spyder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6180

You ask: Is TXN in fact frozen out of the CDMA market at present? No, TI is lining up with some potential big winners. IDC is one company that will use a TI Custom-DSP based on C62x I think. see interdigital.com January 21, 1998 INTERDIGITAL SELECTS TEXAS INSTRUMENTS TO SUPPLY CUSTOM INTEGRATED CIRCUITS FOR B-CDMA WIRELESS PRODUCTS King of Prussia, PA, January 21, 1998 . . . InterDigital Communications Corporation (ASE: IDC) announced today that it has selected Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE: TXN) as its semiconductor supplier to manufacture a custom, highly integrated, chip based on InterDigital's Broadband Code Division Multiple Access™ (B-CDMA™) technology. InterDigital and its strategic partners intend to use the chip, or custom Digital Signal Processor (cDSP), to provide essential functionality in base stations and subscriber terminals for B-CDMA technology-based Wireless Local Loop (WLL) products and, in later phases, Personal Communications Services (PCS) applications. "We are pleased to be working with Texas Instruments. This new chip employs an advanced, state-of-the-art design which will greatly reduce the cost, power usage and size of new generation B-CDMA products by combining into one integrated circuit the functionality of over ten integrated circuits. In addition, enhancements will allow higher data throughput (up to 512 kbps) and user capabilities," said John Kaewell, Vice President of ASIC Development for InterDigital. "Texas Instruments has the capabilities to enable this highly flexible and programmable chip to be customized for a wide variety of applications. InterDigital and its strategic partners will be able to add new features to B-CDMA products and maintain a competitive advantage simply by developing new software," continued Mr. Kaewell. ... S

To: gdichaz who wrote (3489)	4/20/1998 1:12:00 PM
From: pat mudge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6180

Chaz -- TE told the shareholders that TI chips are in 50% of cellular phones. It's not a rumor. ti.com <<< For example, you'll find a DSP Solution behind one of the hottest-selling devices in the world today- the digital cellular phone. Not too many people realize it, but digital cellular phones actually outshipped PCs for the first time in 1997. All told, the industry produced 86 million units of digital cellular phones in 1997, and we forecast that to be about 125 million this year. I suspect I don't have to tell anybody why digital cell phones are so popular. But you may not realize how pervasive and how fast growing digital wireless technology is becoming on a broad scale. Not just here in the U.S., but in countries around the world, where digital wireless is growing faster than any previous generation of communications technology. It took over 70 years for traditional telephones to reach 50 million subscribers worldwide. Analog cellular phones hit that same benchmark in just 14 years. But digital cellular phones blow them both away: It grew to 50 million subscribers in 5 years - and there's still no end in sight. TIers can take a lot of pride in that statistic, because today more than half of all digital cell phones produced are based on a TI DSP Solution. We literally invented the single-chip DSP engine that makes today's best cell phones possible. Our technology is the reason why these phones are smaller, lighter, and offer more talk time than ever before.>>>>